Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Power and Place (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | Documentary, History

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

Power and Place (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV Episode | Documentary, History

A rich, deeply conflicted region forges its own identity amidst continual exploitation and renewal- from the first American school of scientific forestry to the death of the American Chestnut, from union battles to the conservation , from ...See moreA rich, deeply conflicted region forges its own identity amidst continual exploitation and renewal- from the first American school of scientific forestry to the death of the American Chestnut, from union battles to the conservation , from the War on Poverty to the Cherokee Renaissance. Form the heartbreak of mountaintop removal mining to the hope of a new American Chestnut tree, the struggle to find a proper relationship to the natural world remains the real Appalachian story. Written by Ross Spears See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Sissy Spacek Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	In the Bedroom (2001)
Judy Bonds Self - Activist Self - Activist See fewer	Coal Country (2009)
Wilma Dykeman Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The Electric Valley (1984)
Ron Eller Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	CNN Presents: One Paycheck from Poverty (1994)
Nikki Giovanni Self - Writer and Activist Self - Writer and Activist See fewer	Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023)
Barbara Kingsolver Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The Poisonwood Bible
E.O. Wilson Self - Scientist Self - Scientist See fewer	Overland (2020)